0 a teacher who has responsibility for the children in a school who have special needs (= who need special care because of an illness or condition that makes it difficult for them to do the things that other people do):
She is head of learning support and special educational needs co-ordinator at Nailsea School.
As your son is struggling with schoolwork, it would be a good idea to talk to his teacher and the school's special educational needs co-ordinator.
For this to happen all teachers and special educational needs co-ordinators must be appropriately trained.
The project could be led by the school's special educational needs co-ordinator.
The Special Educational Needs co-ordinator at St Thomas More Primary School carried out this experiment in 1997.
